keep your shop and your shop will keep you
- keep your shop and your shop will keep you
Parodied by the American actress Mae West (1892–1980) in the 1937 movie Every Day’s a Holiday: I always say, keep a diary and some day it’ll keep you.
1605 G. CHAPMAN et al. Eastward Ho A2v I..garnished my shop..with good wholsome thriftie sentences; As, ‘Touchstone, keepe thy shopp, and thy shoppe will keepe thee.’
1712 ADDISON Spectator 14 Oct. Sir William Turner..would say, Keep your Shop and your Shop will keep you.
1905 H. G. WELLS Kipps III. iii. A little bell jangled. ‘Shop!’ said Kipps. ‘That’s right. Keep a shop and the shop’ll keep you.’
1943 S. V. BENET Western Star I. 20 I keep my shop but my shop doth not keep me. Shall I give such chances [of making a fortune] the go-by and walk the roads?
1976 H. KEMELMAN Wednesday Rabbi got Wet vii. ‘When I was home, Dad cared a lot more about the store than he did about me,’ he said bitterly. She nodded... ‘That’s because a store, if you take care of it, it takes care of you. Your father lives from that store, and your grandfather before him.’
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